The Passion
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:4th Sep '14
£9.99
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'What you risk reveals what you value...' The Passion is a fairy tale about survival and broken-heartedness, cruelty, obsession and madness.
'A fantasy, a vivid dream...inventive and brilliant' Guardian
Henri has a passion for Napoleon - but Napoleon has a passion for chicken.
'A fantasy, a vivid dream...inventive and brilliant' Guardian
Henri has a passion for Napoleon - but Napoleon has a passion for chicken. As soldier and emperor butcher their way across Europe, glory falls to ruin and love turns to hate.
But, when Henri encounters the red-haired, web-footed Villanelle, he discovers in her an equal. Together they abandon their pasts, and flee to the Venetian canals to meet their singular destiny in the city of chance and disguises.
'A deeply imagined and beautiful book, often arrestingly so.' New York Times
It's a fantasy, a vivid dream... inventive and brilliant * Guardian *
As moving and funny as it is skilful, and reflects the author's formidable appetite for life * Sunday Times *
A book of great imaginative audacity and assurance...brilliantly physical (and funny) detail * Times Literary Supplement *
Its concentrated, beautifully detailed prose recalls the diction of fairy tales; its plot incorporates their magic, their shrewd wit and brutality...a deeply imagined and beautiful book, often arrestingly so * New York Times *
Lyrical prose penetrates to the heart of things... She knows how to speak plain truth and at the same time satisfy our longing for the fabulous. She's telling you stories. Trust her * Washington Post *
ISBN: 9780099598329
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 11mm
Weight: 145g
176 pages